It�s Not All In the Genes

While genetic studies appear to be “the mythical guise of pure science and objective knowledge about nature,” they turn out “underneath, to be political, economic, and social ideology.”

Richard Lewontin

Harvard Professor
Author, Biology as Ideology

ADHD and mental problems are not inherited. They are not based on your genes or how your brain works. They are not a physical disease. You can’t look at them under a microscope or by using a brain scan or x-ray.

Harvard professor Richard Lewontin, author of Biology as Ideology, says, “The fact is, not a single study of personality traits in human populations successfully disentangles similarity because of shared family experience and similarity because of genes....”

David Kaiser, a practicing psychiatrist in Chicago and affiliated with Northwestern University Hospital, states, “…modern psychiatry has yet to convincingly prove the genetic/biologic cause of any single mental illness....”

CCHR What we Believe

Drugging Our Children

RECOGNITION OF CCHR

CCHR's humanitarian work has been recognised the world over for ensuring legal rights and protections for consumers and/or their families. Read more...

DRUG WARNINGS

CCHR led the fight for informed consent to psychiatric treatment, obtaining the first law in South Australia in 1979 that granted patients the right to consent to or refuse electroshock treatment. In recent years, it has filed numerous requests to the Therapeutic Goods Administration to reveal all the adverse drug reactions for psychotropic drugs reported to it. Click here to read more

DRUG SIDE EFFECTS

No matter what country someone is prescribed a psychiatric drug, the side effects are the same: dangerous, sometimes life-threatening, but always debilitating. CCHR International in Los Angeles decoded the U.S. Food and Drug Administration psychotropic drug reports database to produce this drug side effects search engine for consumers. This is also relevant to all Australians. You can also view a selection of ADHD drug reactions including Ritalin, Concerta, Dexamphetamine & Strattera obtained by CCHR.

Psychiatric Drugs

An Australian Report Titled, Psychiatric Drugs and Violence documents how Antidepressants and Antipsychotics can Cause Violence.
The report was written as Australians are not adequately warned that psychiatric drugs can cause homicidal actions and thoughts....

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